Is Micron Technology, Inc. (MU) A Good Stock To Buy?

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Is Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) an excellent stock to buy now? Hedge funds are selling. The number of bullish hedge fund bets decreased by seven lately. MU was in 64 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the fourth quarter of 2015. There were 71 hedge funds in our database with MU positions at the end of the previous quarter. At the end of this article we will also compare MU to other stocks, including Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY), Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE:TAP), and Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG) to get a better sense of its popularity.

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One of Micron’s long-term shareholders was billionaire David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital, which unloaded the position after the stock tumbled during the third quarter of 2015. In this way, during the fourth quarter, Greenlight sold around 12.37 million shares and closed the position. Prior to that, the investor had been quite bullish on the stock and discussed Micron in several of its letters to investors. On the other hand, Whitney Tilson’s T2 Partners saw the drop in the third quarter as an opportunity to buy and further increased its stake between July and September. On the next page, we are going to take a closer look at the last comments both investors made about Micron.

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